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Revisiting marijuana use-calculations

Celebrating Healthy Communities is a 25-year-old prevention coalition with numerous and diverse partners that work to assist youths in growing up to be responsible, caring and healthy. CHC c...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Rural La Plata County deserves better

I find the recent decision by the La Plata County Commissioners to close the Department of Motor Vehicle’s Bayfield office rather puzzling. (I am sorely tempted to say “asinine,” but – cauti...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Hate speech is not equal to free speech

I recently sent the message below to the White House via postcard. Anything sent to representatives in Washington in an envelope is not, typically, opened because a letter was sent in 2001 t...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Herald news should stick to the facts

The Herald displayed poor judgment in printing the article titled “A Loose Bannon” written by Alexandra Petri of The Washington Post (Herald, Aug. 19). Instead of factual news, it...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Library card the best deal around

It is of great benefit to the residents of Durango that our public library offers a space where instead of brands, ideas abound; where the entertainment of reading grows one’s intellect and ...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

War cannot be won on a battlefield

While China ups the ante on a proxy war with the U.S. over Afghanistan, Russia rejoices as America sinks even further into a repeat of its own Afghan quagmire from 1979 to 1989. I...

DATE: Aug 26, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

It’s time for a Trump family intervention

Dear Eric, Ivanka, Melania, Jared and Don Jr.: I’m writing to you today out of deep concern for the president, your dad/husband. I may not be his biggest supporter bu...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

A call to end transgender discrimination

Issues of civil rights for transgender people have recently been in the news, both locally and nationally. We commend the local school district and parent Tirzah Camacho, for the...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Action on our monuments is hypocrisy

Dave Thibodeau of Ska Brewing is to be commended for the opinion piece he wrote for the Herald (Aug. 19) regarding national monuments. These open spaces are a public asset that on...

DATE: Aug 25, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Mercy is an outstanding local hospital

Earlier this summer, our mother was admitted to Mercy Regional Medical Center due to complications from a surgery in another hospital, and while the end result was not as we had hoped, the c...

DATE: Aug 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Act will not mean loss of public control

After reading the recent editorial “Resilient Forests” (Herald, Aug. 12), I would like to offer up a few comments. The Resilient Federal Forests Act includes many different provi...

DATE: Aug 24, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor

Your reader poll link is difficult to find

How do I find the reader poll on The Durango Herald website? I have searched, but it is nowhere to be found. If you had a easy to see link, more folks would participate! ...

DATE: Aug 23, 2017 | CATEGORY: Letters to the Editor